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Monday, April 29, 2013

Sunshine Award and Guest Blog Post

Today, I'm a guest over at Brian Hayden's Blog where I wrote an article about how to write an excellent query letter. If you'd like to read it, please stop by.

In other news, I was nominated for the Sunshine award by Deanie Humphrys-Dunne. Thank you so much, Deanie! Deanie is a very nice lady, so be sure to stop by and say hello to her.

I've received this award before, but since many of you are a little bit newer to my site, I'll participate so you can get to know more about me. The rules are, include the logo on your page, thank and link the person who nominated you, answer 10 questions about yourself, and then nominate 10 more bloggers.

Here we go. Ten things about myself:

1. My favorite color: Red
2. My favorite food: watermelon
3. My least favorite food: sauerkraut. I can't stand the stuff!
4. The most stupid thing I've ever done: Walked through a train tunnel in Germany when a train was coming. I really can't believe I'm still alive!
5. Little known fact about myself: I'm ambidextrous
6. Something on my bucket list: Skydiving. I know I'm a little crazy, but jumping out of an airplane sounds fun!
7. Thing I like doing the most: Playing and teaching violin, viola, and piano. It's my passion.
8. Number of times I've moved in my life: Nine. I'm getting ready for move number 10 to Atlanta, Georgia.
9. Favorite place in the world: That's a tough one. For SCUBA diving, I'd say Cozumel, Mexico, but for an all-time general favorite place, I'd say Paris, France.
10. Former occupation: I was a PADI Scuba diving instructor. I had a lot of fun doing it, and I even got to feed sharks. (I guess that goes along with wanting to jump out of an airplane.)

As for the other sunshiny bloggers, I'm not going to follow the rules, because I'm the Mom and I make up my own rules! And besides, I think you're all sunshiny so I can't just pick ten! If you want this pretty flower to put on your page, then go ahead and take it and use my ten questions (with your own answers, of course!)

Congrats on the award, you certainly have earned it. I love the way you write and you are Sunshine. A lot of awards I got have yet to be passed on as I cannot pick favourites. :) So maybe like you I will soon give it to all my bloggy friends.

Wow! You are an interesting woman! I am so jealous of you being ambidextrous because I have had a couple times in my life where that would have made life a whole lot easier--LOL! The train tunnel--OMG! I'll pass on that one!! ;)

Being ambidextrous does have its perks. If I hurt one hand, I can always use the other. My daughter is ambidextrous, too. (Although, I generally tend to write with my right hand, and she tends to write with her left hand.)

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About Me

Sherry Ellis is an award-winning author and professional musician who plays and teaches the violin, viola, and piano. Her published works include Don't Feed the Elephant, Ten Zany Birds, That Mama is a Grouch, That Baby Woke Me Up, AGAIN, and Bubba and Squirt's Big Dig to China.